Why a Rock-Ribbed Conservative Like Me Support
Donald Trump 100%

By Joan Swirsky
DrRichSwier.com

I’m watching the fierce
South Carolina primary contest among the six
remaining candidates for POTUS and a few things
strike me as astounding.

The first is that all the seasoned politicians on
stage––Governors Bush and Kasich, Senators Cruz and
Rubio––have been relegated to straggler status by
the non-politician in the race, billionaire
businessman Donald Trump. (Dr. Ben Carson, the other
non-politician, is hanging in there but not lighting
any fires).

Second is that only Mr. Trump is raising the
biggest issues facing our country, among them:

Closing our borders, which
are being flooded with un-vetted illegal aliens
who number, by now, into the millions

Bringing both corporations
and jobs back to America

Fixing our Mt. Kilimanjaro
of debt and Mt. Everest of unemployment

Strengthening our military

Third is that he is challenging our longtime and
ridiculous policy of military intervention for the
purpose of nation-building in exchange for…nothing!
Why haven’t we taken our enemy’s oil or exacted
other prices for the blood we’ve spilled and the
honor we’ve spent?

Fourth is that he is saying out loud what most
Americans have been thinking and feeling for almost
eight years, specifically that as a result of our
thunderously ineffective “leadership,” we have
utterly failed to destroy ISIS and the other Islamic
terrorists who spend every waking hour figuring out
how to obliterate America, which they call “the
great Satan,” and our staunchest ally, Israel, “the
little Satan.”

ISIS has about 50,000
adherents, maybe even 75,000. In one week,
the American military could obliterate this
murderous sect from the face of the earth. But
Barack Obama seems to have a peculiar aversion to
fighting the enemies of America, hence the rise of
this homicidal cult and the escalating threat it
poses to our country.

And fifth is the degree to which Mr. Trump is
already negotiating with both domestic and foreign
leaders. He is letting American politicians know
that deals can and will be made but that all of them
must benefit America! And he is telling the entire
world that the vacation that overseas leaders have
had from true American leadership will be over the
very second he enters the Oval Office.

All the while, Mr. Trump’s competitors and
critics carp and whine about his “bluster,”
“naiveté,” and “crudeness.” Wasn’t President Teddy
Roosevelt accused of bluster? Wasn’t President
Ronald Reagan accused of being naive? Wasn’t the
liberals’ hero LBJ accused of crudeness? These are
trifling criticisms, as are the accusations that Mr.
Trump is “not a true conservative” and that in the
past he was, gasp, a liberal. Well, we’ve given the
self-described conservatives the entire House and
Senate and they’ve failed us, so it’s time to give a
born-again conservative a chance!

Once in office, I have full confidence, Mr. Trump
would glassify ISIS into oblivion, take the oil
they’ve stolen and give it to the families who have
been destroyed by these psychotics. He would
overturn and replace Obamacare in record time, build
an impenetrable wall in record time to keep out the
swarms of illegals who, again, Mr. Obama seems
fatally attracted to. He would get rid of a
half-dozen or more bloated government departments,
reduce the tax code to less than 25 pages, and
overturn all the Executive Orders Mr. Obama has
inflicted on the nation in his eagerness to bypass
the U.S. Congress and spit on the U.S. Constitution.
Most important, Mr. Trump would immediately build up
our military and promptly reverse the preposterous,
Obama-dictated Rules of Engagement (i.e., don’t
shoot unless the other guy shoots first).

How do I know this? Because I come from a
business background where people actually get things
done! Where executive decisions are made decisively,
political correctness is considered the silly
indulgence of people with too much time on their
hands, accountability is the order of the day, and
outcomes are regularly measured to gauge
success––all of which is the polar opposite of how
our government works, which is why both Mr. Trump
and the American people hold our government and its
current leadership in such contempt.

Those who point to Mr. Trump’s business failures
purposely fail to mention the personal courage and
financial risks it takes to pursue new, bold,
entrepreneurial ventures, or the resilience it takes
to weather failure, to rebound, and to go on to even
greater heights. They also forget that a man who
heads an incredibly successful organization with
over 20,000 employees, who surrounds himself with
talented experts, and who does business in dozens of
countries (including Mexico, Canada, Mumbai,
Philippines, Dubai, Turkey, Panama, et al) knows
better than any of his rivals––in fact, better than
any politician––how to run a complex bureaucracy,
and a tight ship!

The political criticisms Mr. Trump has been
receiving from the establishment wonks at National
Review, Rupert-Murdoch’s puppets at Fox News, the
hysterical and frenzied Republican National
Committee, and leftists all over the place, are from
people who operate in the rarefied and
self-congratulatory realms of academia, the media,
and of course Washington, D.C.–– including the
politicians who go out for drinks every night with
the lobbyists they depend on to support their
reelection campaigns and pay them enough to live
quite richly in retirement. In common parlance,
they’re known as whores!

That same American public,
through their earnest efforts, managed to elect a
Republican-controlled Senate and House in the 2014
midterms, only to realize that the people they
elected have caved in to every Marxist initiative of
the
Saul-Alinsky-driven regime in power. We’ll never
know to what degree threats, intimidation, and
bribes played in this craven capitulation, but
Americans finally understand they’ve been
betrayed––hence the overwhelming support for a
candidate who is absolutely impervious to bribes,
threats, and intimidation.

TRAITS

There are certain qualities I’m looking for in
the next president of the United States, which I can
sum up in the acronym TRAITS.

Track Record

I want the next POTUS to
have an impressive track record of accomplishment,
not simply a laundry list of rosy promises. Now that
Mr. Trump has effectively quashed the rest of the
competition and is ahead by double digits in the
South Carolina primary contest to be held on
Saturday, February 20th, he may just run
the table. Unlike everyone else in the race, he has
run a gigantic corporation with immense success, a
business that has required him to deal with titanic
problems.

As Steve Cuozzo has written
in the New York Post, long before The Donald
considered running for president, he had already
helped save New York City by being “New York’s
most important and bravest real-estate developer.”

And Mr. Trump’s daughter
Ivanka
remarked recently to Breitbart, “From day one,
my father set the agenda for what the whole party is
talking about.”

That is called Leadership!

I trust that Mr. Trump will come into office on
Day One with the world’s biggest broom!

Appearance

I remember watching the
JFK-Nixon debates in the presidential contest of
1960. It was the first presidential debate of the
fledgling TV era and it had a profound effect on the
entire country.

Previous televised hearings about organized crime
were held by Sen. Estes Kefauver (D-TN) in 1950 (the
year my family actually bought our first TV), and
about the infiltration of Communists into our
government and military (sound familiar?) held by
Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) in 1954.

JFK was a dashing and articulate Harvard
graduate, and Nixon a sort of awkward,
looking-for-the-right-word graduate of Whittier
College, whose wife Pat was slim, blond and
beautiful, as were his two young daughters. But who
on earth could compete with Jackie, the breathy,
willowy, gorgeous 30-year-old who had graduated from
the tony Miss Porter’s School, Vassar College, and
the Sorbonne, and had two adorable babies?

All the glamour of the
Kennedys was featured in print by besotted newspaper
editors across the country, and blared on TV by
leftist anchors at the three networks that existed
at the time: CBS, NBC, ABC. All of them, of course
objectively, touted the always-intriguing
ingredients of youth, glamour, sexiness, romance,
scandal, and wealth of the “Camelot” couple. And
guess who won the presidency?

However, it turned out that
Kennedy, who had been in the Senate for seven
years––longer than Obama, Cruz, or Rubio––was not as
equipped as his rival Nixon would have been to deal
with the
Bay of Pigs invasion in April, 1961, which
strengthened the position of the Communist Fidel
Castro’s leadership and his relationship with USSR,
and the disastrous
Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, which was the
closest the Cold War between the U.S. and Russia
came to escalating into a full-scale nuclear war.

In that era, Kennedy’s appearance proved to be
just that, appearance.

Appearances still matter and certainly Mr. Trump
and his family are amazingly glamorous, appealing,
photogenic and wealthy. And his worldly business
experience supersedes and eclipses that of his
rivals by light years. Also, the billionaire mogul
looks presidential! He’s big, like America. He’s
bold, like our Founders. And he’s masculine, not one
of the sissified, metro-sexual men of today who have
been cowed into tiptoeing through the tulips of
political correctness, too afraid to say what they
think for fear of offending the perpetually
aggrieved, oh-so-sensitive, hothouse-flower
special-interest groups among us.

Who can forget when right out of the gate, Mr.
Trump said he would close the borders and ship all
the illegal aliens back to where they came from,
including anchor babies? When a self-important
reporter told him that the “anchor baby” term was
offensive, Mr. Trump said, “That’s what I say,
anchor babies.” Slam dunk.

That is called Leadership!

Ideas

Barack Obama came into office intent on turning
our country into his childlike utopian version of
social-justice paradise, the better to cut down to
size what he and his far-left cronies believe is the
big, bad colonialist power known as the United
States of America.

Using the
Cloward-Piven strategy, outlined in 1966, to
bankrupt the country through gargantuan
expenditures, Obama increased welfare costs (through
the importation of millions of illegal aliens),
increased our debt to $19-going-on-$20-trillion, and
financed a great number of phony-baloney schemes
like
Solyndra, which received a $536 million U.S.
Energy Department loan guarantee in 2009 and then
went broke in 2011. Ever wonder into whose
now-bulging pockets all those millions went?

In contrast, Mr. Trump came on the scene and
immediately said he would stop the tsunami of
illegal aliens crossing our border by building a
fence that Mexico would pay for! He then cited the
Muslim jihadists and their carnage in San Bernardino
and said he would immediately suspend all Muslims
coming into this country until the U.S. Congress
figured out what was going on.

That is called Leadership!

True Patriot

A Gallup poll of February 7th indicates
quite persuasively that America is overwhelmingly
conservative. The poll,
wrote Bruce Walker in the American Thinker,
reported that the number of states “in which
conservatives outnumber liberals has been as low as
47 states and as high as 50 states. This ought to be
a very big story, but Gallup, like nearly every
other polling organization, tilts left
ideologically.”

That’s exactly what people and pundits say about
Mr. Trump, that he tilts left ideologically. So how
can a rock-ribbed conservative like me possibly
support him?

Simple! I gave birth to my
first child when I was 18. Right there and then,
practically when I was still lying on the delivery
room table, I knew what my job was. It was not to
give my beautiful little boy the most nutritious
meals or the best education or a fancy home or the
shiniest tricycle. It was to keep him safe!
Without safety, everything else is moot. In fact,
more than moot, non-existent! If you’re not safe,
nothing else matters.

And here comes Mr. Trump, a non-politician, who
gets it, who deeply understands that if we don’t
close our borders and continue to let un-vetted
aliens into our country, we are de facto not
safe!

And how is the safety of our country secured?
Only through the overwhelming strength of our
military and local and national law enforcement
agencies, which the current occupant of the Oval
Office has systematically tried to decimate, right
up to this month, when he issued an order––in
keeping with his fetish about the hoax of global
warming––that no military action can be taken
without first assuring that no harm comes to the
environment. Hard to believe, but true.

To compound the stupidity of
this policy, consider that former CIA director,
Michael Morrell recently admitted that
concerns about contaminating the environment
have prevented the White House from bombing oil
wells that finance the Islamic State in Iraq and
Syria (ISIS), which Barack Obama calls ISIL, the “L”
standing for Levant, an area that includes Israel.
Translated: Obama––as we know by now–– considers
Israel the enemy!

Can you imagine a
President Trump not bombing our
enemies because of a few trees? As my fellow
New Yorkers would say, gimme a break!

STRENGTH

Before he formally
announced his candidacy in June 2015, Mr. Trump
attended the
Iowa Freedom Summit the previous January, where
he received a standing ovation when he said that he
could “make this country great again.”

He said he believed that “any credible American
foreign policy doctrine should be defined by at
least seven core principles”:

American interests come
first. Always. No apologies.

Maximum firepower and
military preparedness.

Only go to war to win.

Stay loyal to your friends
and suspicious of your enemies.

Keep the technological
sword razor sharp.

See the unseen. Prepare
for threats before they materialize.

Respect and support our
present and past warriors.

That is strength…that is Leadership!

Don Fredrick, the creator
of
The Complete Obama Timeline, says that “the
establishment is frightened to death that Trump will
win…you can be certain that if an establishment
candidate wins in November 2016, America loses.”

Former Navy SEAL and writer
Jim O’Neill
says that “Trump is a true-blue patriot…” He
cites Harlem Pastor James Manning who says that
Trump
speaks truth to power. Trump “knows full
well that Big Business, Big Media, Big Banking, and
Big Government are all in bed together,” O’Neill
adds, “and like no other major political figure that
I can recall from my lifetime, he calls them on it.
His love for the United States is obvious,
deep-seated, and true.”

As for me, I’m as conservative as it gets, but
Conservatives have failed me and our country. I’m
counting on Mr. Trump to fix what’s been broken, to
keep our country safe and employed and on the road
back to a spectacular recovery!